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QuickLinks to the United States Patent and Trademark Office are
located below. Though we are not affiliated with the USPTO, we make
it easy to locate the official US patent & trademark office site.
The federal government site is far from easy for web-surfers to find
as it uses somewhat obscure abbreviations (USPTO), and also known dot.gov
domain extension, instead of popular dot.com extension.
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Exactly What Are Trademarks
Servicemarks, Patents & Copyrights?
It's somewhat common to get patents, copyrights, trademarks
and servicemarks confused. Although there are similarities among these
various types of intellectual property protection, they are also quite
different and serve different purposes and functions.
What Is a Patent?
A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right
to the inventor, issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The term of a new patent is 20-yrs from the date on which the application
for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from
the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment
of maintenance fees. US patent grants are effective only within the US,
US territories, and US possessions.
The right given by the patent grant is, in the language
of the statute and of the grant itself, “the right to exclude others
from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention
in the United States or “importing” the invention into the United
States. What is granted is not the right to make, use, offer for sale,
sell or import, but the right to exclude others from making, using, offering
for sale, selling or importing the invention.
Exactly what Is a Trademark or Servicemark?
A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used
in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish
them from the goods of others. A servicemark is the same as a trademark
except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather
than a product.
The terms "trademark" and "mark" are
commonly used to refer to both trademarks and servicemarks.
Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using
a confusingly similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the
same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly
different mark. Trademarks which are used in interstate or foreign commerce
may be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. The trademark
registration procedure for trademarks and general information concerning
trademarks is described in a separate pamphlet entitled "Basic Facts
about Trademarks".
What Is a Copyright?
Copyrights are a form of protection provided to the authors
of “original works of authorship” including literary, dramatic,
musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published
and unpublished. The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright
the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative
works, to distribute copies or phono-records of the copyrighted work,
to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted
work publicly.
The copyright protects the form of expression rather than
the subject matter of the writing. For example, a description of a machine
could be copyrighted, but this would only prevent others from copying
the description; it would not prevent others from writing a description
of their own or from making and using the machine.
(Excerpted from US Govt
General Information Brochure)
Copyrights are registered by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.
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Please note this website
is not affiliated with the Official United States Patent and Trademark
Office USPTO Office
located in the United States, or other nations, or their official government
web-site. This name may be in use by other nations of the world using
their individual country code name extension and not necessarily always
by the U.S. We offers this web-site link as an easy-to-find link to their
official website. Typically a government site (The U.S. for example, and
some other countries) use a dot-gov name extension instead of the more
well known dot-com or dot-org. To avoid any confusion to a government
website we have posted a link to the official government website on this
page for easy access. However, in the unlikely event a Government Agency
determines our use of this name is causing confusion the official government
agency or department can receive this domain name at no cost upon their
official request, which of course will need to be verified for needed
authenticity. Please click-on the link located above for easy and direct
access to the U.S. government official USPTO Office, if applicable.
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